S*ALT Top 10 of 2011…

Orangutang - www.redheadmonkeys.com

1. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
2. Tuneyards – Whokill
3. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
4. Tom Waits – Bad As Me
5. Devotchka – 100 Lovers
6. Radiohead – King of Limbs
7. Tv On The Radio – Nine types of Light
8. Sigur Ros – Inni
9. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
10. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Mirror Traffic

 

Ryan Soroka / The Soroka Agency – www.TheSorokaAgency.com

1. Into It. Over It. – Proper
2. The Story So Far – Under Soil And Dirt
3. Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math
4. I Am The Avalanche – Avalanche United
5. The Wonder Years – Suburbia
6. Polar Bear Club – Clash Battle Guilt Pride
7. City And Colour – Little Hell
8. Frank Turner – English Keep My Bones
9. Parachute – The Way It Was
10. Young Statues – Young Statues

 

Emmy Black / Bar None Records – www.bar-none.com

1. The Front Bottoms – S/T (Bar/None)
2. Emperor X – Western Teleport (Bar/None)
3. Jeffrey Lewis – A Turn in the Dream-Songs (Rough Trade)
4. The Can’t Tells – S/T (Self Released)
5. By Surprise – Mountain Smashers (Topshelf)
6. Warpaint – The Fool (Rough Trade)
7. The Head and the Heard – (Sub Pop)
8. Fucked Up – David Comes to Life (Matador)
9. Yuck – S/T (Fat Possum)
10. Fidlar – DIYDUI (7″) (White Iris)
11. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther Sounds)

 

Ryan / Picture Atlantic – www.pictureatlantic.com

1. Lisa Hannigan – “Passenger”
2. St. Vincent – “Strange Mercy”
3. Drake – “Take Care”
4. Coeur de pirate – “Blonde”

 

Spencer West / San Jose Music Documentarian – livelocalpodcast.tumblr.com

1. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
2. Limousines – Get Sharp
3. Death Cab for Cutie – Codes and Keys
4. Telekinesis – 12 Desperate Straight Lines
5. Picture Atlantic – The Amalgamesh EP
6. Blue Sky Black Death – NOIR
7. Please Do Not Fight – pastpresentfuture : part 1
8. The Trophy Fire – Modern Hearts
9. One the Radio – Nine Types of Light
10. Coast Jumper – Grand Opening

 

Please Do Not Fight – www.pleasedonotfight.com

1. Wilco – The Whole Love
2. tUnE yArDs – W H O K I L L
3. Bright Eyes – The People’s Key
4. The Roots – Undun
5. Jay-Z and Kanye West – Watch the Throne
6. Black Keys – El Camino
7. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
8. Tapes N’ Tapes – Outside
9. Morning Teleportation – Expanding Anyway
10. Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math

 

Jaycen Mckissick and Emily Whitehurst / Survival Guide – www.srvvlgd.com

1. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX – ‘We’re New Here’
2. Gotye – ‘Making Mirrors’
3. Bon Iver – ‘Bon Iver’
4. Radiohead – ‘The King of Limbs’
5. TV on the Radio – ‘Nine Types of Light’
6. SBTRKT – ‘SBTRKT’
7. Death Grips – ‘Exmilitary’
8. PJ Harvey – ‘Let England Shake’
9. Suedehead – ‘In Motion EP’
10. Oh land – ‘Oh Land’

Emily Whitehurst / Survival Guide – www.srvvlgd.com

1. Oh Land – “Oh Land”
2. Yelle – “Safari Disco Club”
3. Death Cab for Cutie – “Codes and Keys”
4. Little Dragon – “Ritual Union”
5. The Drums – “Portamento”
6. TV on the Radio – “Nine Types of Light”
7. M83 – “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming”
8. Phantogram – “Nightlife”
9. Bjork – “Biophilia”
10. We Were Promised Jetpacks – “In the Pit of the Stomach”

 

Leslie Hampton / Side With Us Records – www.sidewithus.com/records

1. You Are Plural – No More CD EP
2. Forest Fire – Staring at the X
3. The New Trust + Friends – Battle to the Death
4. Survival Guide – Hot Lather Machine EP
5. Themes – The Phantom
6. Not To Reason Why – The Book of Hours
7. Odd Bird – Smith
8. Gardens & Villa – S/T
9. San Francesca – SSS11 EP
10. The Record Winter – Dry Me Up CD EP

 

Albert Bracamonte – brocimages.smugmug.com

1. Drake – Take Care
2. Those Charming Crooks – Sunday Heist
3. Whiskey Avengers – Dead Man Rocking
4. Say Anything – In Defense Of The Genre
5. The Stepkids – Shadows On Behalf
6. Ben Folds Five – Whatever And Ever Amen
7. Between The Buried And Me – Colors Live
8. Taking Back Sunday – Where You Want To Be
9. Architects – Ruin
10. Brand New – The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
11. Katy Perry – Teenage Dream

 

Emily Bines / Advanced Alternative Media – www.aampromo.com

Emily wanted to do songs…so we let her!

1. Rihanna – We Found Love
2. Golden Jubilee – Boy & Bear
3. Azaelia Banks – 212
4. Nicki Minaj – Super Bass
5. Work Out – J Cole
6. Vomit – Girls
7. Somebody That I Used To Know – Gotye
8. Hold On – Alabama Shakes
9. New Cannonball Blues – TV On The Radio
10. Headlong Into the Abyss – We Are Augustines
11. We Turn It Up –Oh Land

Tumbleweed Wanderers – www.tumbleweedwanderers.com

1. My Morning Jacket – Circuital
2. Feist – Metals
3. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
4. Givers – In Light
5. Danger Mouse & Daniel Lippi – Rome
6. Middle Brother – Middle Brother
7. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
8. Iron & Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean
9. TV On The Radio – Nine Types Of Light
10. Alexander – Alexander

 

Jayce Basques / DownDownDown – www.wherethetragichappens.com

1. Tom Waits – “Bad as Me”
2. Mew – “Eggs Are Funny”
3. Hall & Oates – “The Essential Hall & Oates” (one of the few to actually come out in 2011 on my list)
4. Green Day – “Awesome as Fuck”
5. Kimbra – “Settle Down EP” (she is amazing)
6. Jonny Greenwood – “There Will Be Blood Soundtrack” (epic get shit done music)
7. Girls – “Broken Dreams Club”
8. Damato – “Everybody vs You and Me” (Not out yet, but we toured these songs with Damato as his his backing band)
9. Kaki King – “Legs to Make Us Longer” (one of my go-to’s for about two years now)
10. DownDownDown – “Say Hello to C’est la Vie EP” (couldn’t resist; but I am very happy with the end result.)

 

San Francesca – sanfrancescamusic.com

1. Watch the Throne – Kanye West and Jay-Z
2. The SMiLE! Sessions – The Beach Boys
3. Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Girls
4. Helplessness Blues – Fleet Foxes
5. The King of Limbs – Radiohead
6. Weekend at Burnie’s – Curren$y
7. Slave Ambient – The War on Drugs
8. LiveLoveA$AP – A$AP Rocky
9. The Book of Hours – Not to Reason Why
10. The Big Roar – The Joy Formidable

 

Lia Datla / KSJS Program director / Founder eMerging Arts – www.KSJS.org

Best Of 2011 (Locals)

1. Bird by Bird – While You Sleep
2. The Trophy Fire – Modern Hearts
3. Brooke D. – The Little Green Monster
4. Tumbleweed Wanderers – S/T
5. Cartoon Bar Fight – Tell All The Children EP
6. Monstrauss – Think Tank
7. Ghost & the City – Sazerac
8. Rin Tin Tiger – S/T
9. Dogcatcher – KILR
10. Set Your Goals – Burning at Both Ends

Best of 2011 (overall)

1. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
2. Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts
3. The One AM Radio – Heaven is Attached By A Slender Thread
4. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
5. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
6. Alkaline Trio – Damnesia
7. Dum Dum Girls – Only in Dreams
8. Mates of State – Mountaintops
9. Frank Turner – England Keep My Bones
10. Ume – Phantoms

 

Anthony Gualano / Graphic designer – www.tritondesignstudio.com

1. Crosses – † EP
2. White Lies – The Ritual
3. Puscifer – Conditions Of My Parole
4. Cold Cave – Cherish The Light Years
5. TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light
6. The Horrors – Skying
7. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
8. Radiohead – King of Limbs
9. Jane’s Addiction – The Great Escape Artist
10. The Raveonettes – Raven In The Grave
11. Foster The People – Torches

 

Dead Air Dave / U.N.C.LE Promotions – www.kkbbezine.com

1. The Fire Apes – A Life In Letters
2. Mutemath – Odd Soul
3. The Features – Wilderness
4. The Dear Hunter – The Color Spectrum
5. Girl In A Coma – Exits & All the Rest
6. History Of Painters – Only what The Spring Can Bring
7. Cults – (self titled)
8. The New York Dolls – Walking Backward In High Heels
9. Bright Eyes – The Peoples Key
10. Cage the Elephant – Thank You Happy Birthday

 

Newman / Owner / The Grill Marketing & Consulting

1. Eastern Conference Champions – Speak-Ahh (Rockhampton Records)
2. Holy Ghost! – S/T – DFA Records
3. Bombay Bicycle Club – A Different Kind Of Fix – A&M / Octone
4. Teddybears – Devil’s Music – Atlantic / Big Beat
5. YACHT – Shangri-La – DFA Records

 

Bret Morgan / Owner - BandsOnABudget.com & Cowerks

1. River City Extension – The Unmistakeable Man
2. The Lonely Forest – ‘Arrows’
3. Blitzen Trapper – American Goldwing
4. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
5. Kevin Devine – Between the Concrete & Clouds
6. Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math
7. Wilco – The Whole Love
8. Alkaline Trio – Damnesia
9. Wugazi – 13 Chambers
10. Frank Turner – England Keep My Bones

 

Mindy White / States – www.StatesMusic.com

1. Coldplay – “Mylo Xlyto” – Favorite song: “Hurts Like Heaven”
2. The Strokes – “Angles” – Favorite song: “Undercover of Darkness”
3. Oh Land – Self Titled – Favorite song: “Wolf & I”
4. The Kooks – “Junk of the Heart” – Favorite song: “How’d You Like That”
5. Foo Fighters – “Wasting Light” – Favorite song: “White Limo”
6. Adele – “21″ – Favorite song: “Turning Tables”
7. The Lonely Island – “Turtleneck and Chain” – Favorite song: “Turtleneck and Chain”
8. CeeLo Green – “The Lady Killer” – Favorite song: “I Want You”
9. Alison Krauss and Union Station – “Paper Airplanes” – Favorite song: ” Dimming of the Day”
10. Panic At The Disco – “Vices & Virtues” – Favorite song: “Let’s Kill Tonight”

 

Bill Bodkin / Editor-in-Chief / Pop-Break – www.pop-break.com

1. Worship Music – Anthrax
2. 21- Adele
3. Going Out in Style – Dropkick Murphys
4. Hide Nothing – Only Living Boy
5. Balls Out – Steel Panther
6. Join Us – They Might Be Giants
7. England Keep My Bones – Frank Turner
8. Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 – The Beastie Boys
9. Abbey Dub – Yellow Dubmarine
10. The Front Bottoms – The Front Bottoms

 

Taylor Allen

1. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
2. Tom Waits – Bad As Me
3. Fucked Up – David Comes to Life
4. Mariachi El Bronx – 2
5. We Are Augustines – Rise Ye Sunken Ships
6. The Roots – Undun
7. The Riverwinds – Blossom & Die
8. Nicole Atkins – Mondo Amore
9. Cheeseburger – Another Big Night Down the Drain
10. Wilco – The Whole Love

Steve Zmijewski / Fellow Music/radio snob that decided to submit a top 20… jerk

1. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
2. Maritime – Human Hearts
3. Adele – 21
4. Defeater – Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
5. Cold Cave – Cherish the Light Years
6. Small Brown Bike – Fell & Found
7. I Hate Our Freedom – Seriously
8. Chuck Ragan – Covering Ground
9. Cage The Elephant – Thank You Happy Birthday
10. Face To Face – Laugh Now, Laugh Later
11. Nothington – Borrowed Time
12. Kevin Devine – Between The Concrete & Clouds
13. The Boxer Rebellion – The Cold Still
14. The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar
15. Banquets – Top Button, Bottom Shelf
16. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – S/T
17. Laura Stevenson and the Cans – Sit Resist
18. Dave Hause – Resolutions
19. The Living End – The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating
20. Tom Waits – Bad As Me

 

Joe Monmouth – Hip Hop/ Hardcore Music Impresario and Radio DJ

1. Most Precious Blood – Do Not Resuscitate
2. CunninLynguists – Oneirology
3. Action Bronson – Dr. Lecter
4. Evidence – Cats & Dogs
5. Tom Waits – Bad As Me
6. Reks – Rhythmatic Eternal King Supreme
7. Explosions In The Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
8. Action Bronson & Statik Selektah – Well Done
9. Vakill – Armor of God
10. Cyne – Wasteland Volume I: Killmore

 

Bill O’Brien – I do work – www.SaveAlternative.com

1. We are Augustines – Rise Ye Sunken Ships
2. B. Hamilton – Everything I own is Broken
3. M83 – Hurry Up We’re Dreaming
4. The Front Bottoms – self titled
5. Fucked up – David Comes to Life
6. The Horrors – Skying
7. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
8. The Antlers – Burt Apart
9. Phantogram – Nightlife E.P.
10. Wye Oak- Civilian

 

The Trims – www.thetrims.net

1. The Horrors “Skying”
2. The Strokes “Angles”
3. Tame Impala “Innerspeaker”
4. Two Door Cinema Club “Tourist History”
5. Radiohead “The King of Limbs”
6. Bell and Sebastian “Write About Love”
7. The Bell Thieves “Real Fun”
8. The Kills “Blood Pressures”
9. The Trims “We Cried For Fun”
10. The Trims “Cut To Fit”

 

Bell Thieves – www.bellthieves.com

Ramzi / Bell Thieves

1. Radiohead – The King of Limbs
2. James Blake – James Blake
3. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
4. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
5. Toro Y Moi – Underneath the Pine
6. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
7. Washed Out – Within and Without
8. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
9. The Weeknd – House of Balloons
10. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

Thomas Burns /  The Bell Thieves

1. Radiohead – The King of Limbs
2. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
3. James Blake – James Blake
4. Toro y Moi – Underneath the Pine
5. Neon Indian – Era Extrana
6. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Mirror Traffic
7. Panda Bear – Tomboy
8. Washed Out – Within and Without
9. Fierce Creatures – I Mostri Feroci
10. tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l

 

GREGG PIRILLO (S*ALT Program Director / On Air DJ)

1. Bon Iver “Bon Iver, Bon Iver”
2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah “Hysterical”
3. Friendly Fires “Pala”
4. WU LYF “Go Tell Fire To The Mountain”
5. Destroyer “Kaputt”
6. Violens “Amoral”
7. Vetiver “The Errant Charm”
8. Radiohead “King Of Limbs”
9. Puscifer “Conditions of my Parole”
10. DJ Shadow “The Less You Know, The Better

(Albums that could’ve EASILY been on this list on any other given day):

• Foster The People “Torches”
• Twilight Singers “Dynamite Steps”
• Hooray For Earth “True Loves”
• Fountains of Wayne “Sky Full Of Holes”
• Holy Ghost! “Holy Ghost!”
• Janes Addiction “The Great Escape Artist”

 

Sim Castro – Musician (Albert Square R.I.P.)

1. David Bazan – Strange Negotiations
2. Bomb the Music Industry – Vacation
3 and 4. Joyce Manor – Self-titled & Summer Vacation – Condition (these two are tied. both way too good to pick one over the other.)
5. Man Man - Life Fantastic
6. Archers of Loaf – Icky Mettle (reissue)
7. Underground Railroad to Candyland – Know Your Sins
8. Fucked Up – David Comes to Life
9. Good Luck – Without Hesitation
10. Cake – Showroom of Compassion

 

Matt Korvette – Pissed Jeans

Top ten clothing purchases this year, ranked by stunningness:

1. Lost & Found leather/shearling coat
2. Ann Demeulemeester Berlin jacket
3. Boris Bidjan Saberi waxed druid-neck hoodie
4. Maison Martin Margiela gladiator sandals
5. Lumen et Umbra painted silk sweater
6. Faliero Sarti cotton scarf
7. Rick Owens sleeveless tee
8. Ann Demeulemeester pinstripe cropped pants
9. Boris Bidjan Saberi sewn-sleeve t-shirt
10. Damir Doma asymmetrical t-shirt

 

Ernest Greene – Washed Out

1. Araabmuzik – “Streetz Tonight”
2. Atlas Sound – “Terra Incognita”
3. Chairlift – “Amanaemonesia”
4. Cut Copy – “Hanging on to Every Heartbeat”
5. The Horrors – “Still Life”
6. John Maus – “The Believer”
7. Panda Bear – “Last Night At the Jetty”
8. Real Estate – “It’s Real”
9. Toro y Moi – “Go With You”
10. Tycho – “Hours”

 

Robin Pecknold – Fleet Foxes

1. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo & Bill Callahan – Apocalypse – “I got… runner ups… YEEEAAH!” and the part in “Universal Applicant” where Bill does the flare gun sound effects.
2. The license plate that said “SNUTS”
3. The section of “Codex” by Radiohead where he sings “Jump off the end” and the piano ascends but the vocal melody descends. And the drum sound that’s like tapping your finger on a chair at the airport.
4. Portishead in Poznan, Poland & Bill Callahan in Chorzow, Poland.
5. The Walkmen playing horns together in the basement of the Masonic Temple in Cleveland, recording it on my phone, and then watching it all the time.
6. Van Dyke Parks’ business card
7. The album “To My Long Lost Love” by an anonymous Portland musician. Easily the new album I’ve listened to most.
8. The show Breaking Bad
9. Etta James’ version of “God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind)” by Randy Newman
10. William Tyler, BEHOLD THE SPIRIT! So awesome.

 

Skye Skjelset – Fleet Foxes

1. Bill Callahan’s “Apocalypse.”
2. Marvel Comics’ “Uncanny X-Force” and “X-Men: Schism.”
3. South Brooklyn Pizza or Joe’s in New York City.
4. Thurston Moore’s “Demolished Thoughts.”
5. The movie “Martha Marcy May Marlene.”
6. Kurt Vile’s “Smoke Ring for My Halo.”
7. Gillian Welch’s “The Harrow & The Harvest.”
8. Samurai Mama in New York City.
9. Playing the bass clarinet.

 

Lou Barlow – Sebadoh

Top 10 Albums (and Radio Station and Podcast) of 2011, in no particular order

• Unknown Mortal Orchestra – UMO
• Electric Wizard – Black Masses
• George Jones – Ragged But Right: The Starday Years Plus
• Webb Pierce – Fallen Angel/Cross Country ( 2-LP reissue)
• Wye Oak- Civilian
• Panda Bear-Tomboy
• Weekend – Sports
• WTF Marc Maron – probably the most popular podcast in the world right now
• KXLU – KXLU is freeform college radio in LA that plays all manner of current and happening indie rock throughout the day…it’s raw, brilliant and occasionally unlistenable like college radio is s’posed to be.
• Britney Spears-’Til the World Ends

 

Brandon Summers – Helio Sequence

My 2011 Top 10 (in no ranking order):

• Let England Shake- PJ Harvey
• Bon Iver-Bon Iver
• Black Up- Shabazz Palaces
• Build A Rocket Boys- Elbow
• Ravedeath 1972- Tim Hecker
• Mark Hollis (Reissue)- Mark Hollis
• Laughing Stock (Reissue)- Talk Talk
• Smoke Ring for My Halo- Kurt Vile
• James Blake- James Blake1
• King of Limbs- Radiohead

 

Greg Dulli of The Twilight Singers and The Gutter Twins

1. Louis CK at Mahalia Jackson Theater/New
   Orleans 10.6.11
2. The 2011 World Series
3. Breaking Bad/Season 4
4. Prince at the Forum/Inglewood 4.30.11
5. Vetiver/The Errant Charm
6. Drive
7. Blake Griffin/Los Angeles Clippers
8. Metronomy/English Riviera
9. Curb Your Enthusiasm/Palestinian Chicken
10. Dam Funk at One Eyed Jack’s/New Orleans 10.3.11

 

Daniel Martin Moore

My 10 (not in order) Favorite Things (that i can think of right now) of 2011 (so far),

• Circuital by My Morning Jacket
  Their best album yet? I love these guys.
• Golder by Haley Bonar
  HB does it again. This is a wonderful record. My favorite song is probably Wendy Bird.
• La Petite Mort by Russell Ihrig
  Hilarious & gross. Read it!
• Family & friends all having babies!
  Lots of new kidos around this year. People are tired & happy.
• Lullabies by Maiden Radio
  Some dear friends released this breathtaking album full of quiet harmony. And
  it’s the first record to come out on my new label, Ol Kentuck. It’s very near
  to my heart.
• Finally saw the Movie 2001: A Space Odyssey
  Hard to believe that all happened only 10 short years ago.
• Produced Someone Else’s Record For The First Time!
  Joan Shelley, a good friend & artist from Louisville, KY, has a new record due out in 2012. I’m proud to have worked on it.
• Planted 3 Ginko Trees & 4 Magnolias
  And a bunch of pines, too.
• Daniel Joseph Dorff’s New Album
  I got to help Dan record his new solo piano album which will be coming out on Dec. 12, 2011!
• Finally Outsmarted The Squirrels That Have Been Eating The Cabin
  By mixing tremendous amounts of cayenne pepper with common wood glue, and
  painting it onto the places they (for some mystifying reason) were bound &
  determined to chew up. It burned their little faces off, I bet. But they’ve
  stopped chomping holes in the walls. And it’s better than shooting them, right?
  Right.

 

Skye Skjelset of Fleet Foxes

1. Bill Callahan’s “Apocalypse.”
2. Marvel Comics’ “Uncanny X-Force” and “X-Men: Schism.”
3. South Brooklyn Pizza or Joe’s in New York City.
4. Thurston Moore’s “Demolished Thoughts.”
5. The movie “Martha Marcy May Marlene.”
6. Kurt Vile’s “Smoke Ring for My Halo.”
7. Gillian Welch’s “The Harrow & The Harvest.”
8. Samurai Mama in New York City.
9. Playing the bass clarinet.

 

Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel

FAVORITES OF 2011 (not including friend’s music!)

1. Andy Stott – Passed Me By EP (Modern Love)
2. Clams Casino – Rainforest EP (Tri Angle)
3. Morphosis – What Have We Learned (Delsin)
4. Leyland Kirby – Intrigue & Stuff (Vol. 2) (History Always Favours The Winners)
5. Robag Wruhme – Thora Vukk (Pampa)
6. Massive Attack vs. Burial – Four Walls EP (The Vinyl Factory)
7. Emmylou Harris – Hard Bargain (Nonesuch)
8. Ezekiel Honig – Folding In On Itself (Type)
9. Emptyset – Demiurge (Subtext)
10. Oneohtrix Point – Never Replica (Software)

 

Jaill

Over here at Jaill Top Ten Productions, we can’t ever seem to get enough James Franco. Well, who can really?

So we present-JAILL’s TOP TEN THINGS THAT JAMES FRANCO WAS IN 2011

1. RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES as something. didn’t see it, Vinnie says its good.
2. The Oscars as James Give me my check, this is bullshit Franco, (arguably the best Franco)
3. General Hospital Episode #1.12251
4. General Hospital Episode #1.12250
5. The Oscars as James Anne Hathaway is fucking obnoxious Franco
6. The Green Hornet
7. Your Highness (never saw it, but we’re thinking its like a Game of Thrones, but more graphic?)
8. General Hospital Episode #1.12270
9. The Colbert Report as HIMSELF, JAMES FRANCO
10. The Broken Tower (never heard of it)

 

Male Bonding

1. Sun Araw – Ancient Romans
2. Ganglians – Still Living
3. Blanck Mass – Blanck Mass
4. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
5. Metronomy – The English Riviera
6. Veronica Falls – Veronica Falls
7. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
8. Half Man Half Biscuit – 90 Bisodol (Crimond)
9. Trash Talk – AWAKE (it’s an EP, I know.)
10. Milk Music – Beyond Living (it’s an EP, I know)
11. Diva Dompe

 

Brent Rademaker of Beachwood Sparks

here’s what I bought/downloaded/experienced 2011?

1. yuck lp
2. Girls- father, son, holy ghost
3. Washed Out
4. Sebadoh- live at the Social (Orlando)
5. Comet Gain- Howl of the Loney Crowd
6. Kurt Vile- Ghost Town
7. Neal Casal- Sweeten the Distance
8. Joshua Carpenter- Full Flight
9. Criss Angel- How to Levitate dvd
10. Buffalo Springfield- Rockin in the Free World at Bonnaroo

 

Memoryhouse

1. Breaking Bad
2. Adele – 21
3. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
4. Floral Dresses (Denise)
5. LeBron/Wade/Bosh – Fail
6. Feist – Metals
7. Drive
8. Louie (T.V.)
9. Alela Diane – Alela Diane and Wild Divine
10. Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972/Dropped Pianos E.P

 

Nick Thorburn of Mister Heavenly

1. Blood Orange “I’m Sorry We Lied”
2. Dum Dum Girls “Coming Down”
3. Handsome Furs “Serve the People”
4. Cass McCombs “County Line”
5. Das Racist “Power”
6. Sandro Perri “changes”
7. Random Axe “the Hex”
8. PJ Harvey “The Last Living Rose”
9. Nick Waterhouse “Some Place”
10. Raphael Saadiq “Good Man”

 

Guy Maddison (daughter) from Mudhoney

How about top ten songs baby Coco (six months old) likes to dance to?

1. Top of the Pop, by the Rezillos
2. Constantinople by The Residents
3. Concrete Jungle, By the Specials
4. Reet Petitie by Jackie Wilson
5. I Can’t Lose by Obits
6. Blue Snow by Orange Goblin.
7. Here comes your Man by the Pixies
8. Get off the Phone by Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
9. Neat Neat Neat by the Damned.
10. and of course #10 Papa’s got a brand new Bag, by James Brown.

 

Pete Lepore

1. Foo Fighters “Wasting Light”
2. Adele “21″
3. Defeater “Empty Days & Sleepless Nights”
4. The Naked and Famous “Passive Me, Aggressive You”
5. The Joy Formidable “The Big Roar”
6. Small Brown Bike “Fell & Found”
7. Title Fight “Shed”
8. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
9. The Duke Spirit “Bruiser”
10. I Hate Our Freedom “Seriously”
11. Dave Hause “Resolutions”
12. Cut Copy “Zonoscope”
13. Samiam “Trips”
14. J. Mascis “Several Shades of Why”
15. The Living End “The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating”
16. Cold Cave “Cherish the Light Years”
17. Bush “The Sea of Memories”
18. Rival Schools “Pedals”
19. Twilight Singers “Dynamite Steps”
20. The Vaccines “What Did You Expect From…”